A quick tour of the Silicon web framework: A simple blog API in 85 C++ lines -- Matthieu Garrigues

By Blog Staff | Mar 7, 2015 06:11 PM | Tags: None

Because clear example code is a great motivator:

A quick tour of the Silicon web framework: A simple blog API in 85 C++ lines

by Matthieu Garrigues

From the article:

In late January 2015, I released the first version of the Silicon Web Framework. The documentation covers all the concepts of the library but does not contains a concrete example covering the needs of a real world application. In this blog post, I'll show how to write a such an application with the framework. Like most modern web apps, it relies on a database to store data, and sessions to authenticate its users.

The source code of this article is hosted on the Silicon github repository: https://github.com/matt-42/silicon/blob/master/examples/blog_api.hh ...

Google releases gRPC -- Mugur Marculescu

By NoSenseEtAl | Feb 27, 2015 10:40 AM | Tags: None

A new open source HTTP/2 RPC Framework for C++ and other languages has been released.

Introducing gRPC, a new open source HTTP/2 RPC Framework

by Mugur Marculescu

From the article:

Today, we are open sourcing gRPC, a brand new framework for handling remote procedure calls. It’s BSD licensed, based on the recently finalized HTTP/2 standard, and enables easy creation of highly performant, scalable APIs and microservices in many popular programming languages and platforms. Internally at Google, we are starting to use gRPC to expose most of our public services through gRPC endpoints as part of our long term commitment to HTTP/2.

Boost libraries are now supported in biicode

By Jordi Mon Companys | Feb 21, 2015 05:54 AM | Tags: efficiency dependency management community boost basics

First step to a complete integration of the C++ deps manager biicode with the most popular set of C++ libs: Boost libraries.

Boost libraries are now supported in biicode

by Manu Sánchez

From the news:

At biicode we have been working hard to simplify the process of making Boost available for any C++ programmer with just an include. But this is only the start, the project has been released as open source to allow everyone contribute and help.

Find Your Favorite Library for C++ in NuGet--Hong Hong

By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 16, 2015 11:43 PM | Tags: intermediate

There is a new article on the Visual Studio blog:

Find Your Favorite Library for C++ in NuGet

by Hong Hong

From the article:

Many of you may know that NuGet is the “go-to” library repository for .NET development, but what about using it for C++? The answer here may surprise you as many of the top open source C++ libraries are actually sitting in the NuGet gallery...

Cppcheck

By Andrey Karpov | Feb 16, 2015 02:31 AM | Tags: static code analyzer education cppcheck c++ basics

I wish to introduce the CppCheck tool to the beginner programmers. Cppcheck is a static analyzer for C and C++ code. It is open-source, free, cross-platform and easy-to-use.

Cppcheck

by Andrey Karpov

From the article:

One of the basic advantages of the Cppcheck analyzer is that it is easy-to-use. It is good to teach and study the static analysis methodology: for instance, you install Cppcheck on a Windows system and get a GUI interface allowing you to immediately start checking your projects.

JSON Voorhees - Killer JSON for C++--Travis Gockel

By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 16, 2015 12:35 AM | Tags: intermediate c++11

Yet another JSON library for C++:

JSON Voorhees, GitHub link

by Travis Gockel

From the article:

JSON Voorhees is a JSON library written for the C++ programmer who wants to be productive in this modern world. What does that mean? There are a ton of JSON libraries floating around touting how they are "modern" C++ and so on. But who really cares? JSON Voorhees puts the focus more on the resulting C++ than any "modern" feature set. This means the library does not skip on string encoding details like having full support for UTF-8. Are there "modern" features? Sure, but this library is not meant to be a gallery of them – a good API should get out of your way and let you work. It is hosted on GitHub and sports an Apache License, so use it anywhere you need...

ODB C++ ORM 2.4.0 Released, Adds Bulk Operations Support

By Boris Kolpackov | Feb 11, 2015 11:55 AM | Tags: None

ODB C++ ORM 2.4.0 Released, Adds Bulk Operations Support

by Boris Kolpackov

ODB is an open source object-relational mapping (ORM) system for C++. It allows you to persist C++ objects to a relational database without having to deal with tables, columns, or SQL and without manually writing any of the mapping code.

Major new features in this release:

• Support for bulk operations in Oracle and SQL Server. Bulk operations can be used to persist, update, or erase a range of objects using a single database statement execution which often translates to a significantly better performance.
• Ability to join and load one or more complete objects instead of, or in addition to, a subset of their data members with a single SELECT statement execution (object loading views).
• Support for specifying object and table join types in views (LEFT, RIGHT, FULL, INNER, or CROSS).
• Support for calling MySQL and SQL Server stored procedures.
• Support for defining persistent objects as instantiations of C++ class templates.

A more detailed discussion of these features can be found on the blog. For the complete list of new features in this version see the official release announcement.

ODB is written in portable C++ (both C++98/03 and C++11 are supported) and you should be able to use it with any modern C++ compiler. In particular, we have tested this release on GNU/Linux (x86/x86-64/ARM), Windows (x86/x86-64), Mac OS X (x86/x86_64), and Solaris (x86/x86-64/SPARC) with GNU g++ 4.2.x-5.x, MS Visual C++ 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2013, Sun Studio 12u2, and Clang 3.x.

The currently supported database systems are MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server. ODB also provides optional profiles for Boost and Qt, which allow you to seamlessly use value types, containers, and smart pointers from these libraries in your persistent classes.

More information, documentation, source code, and pre-compiled binaries are available on the project's page.

GCC5 and the C++11 ABI--rhjason

By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 10, 2015 08:24 AM | Tags: c++11 advanced

A new article of interest for library developers:

GCC5 and the C++11 ABI

by rhjason

From the article:

The GNU C++ team works hard to avoid breaking ABI compatibility between releases, including between different -std= modes. But some new complexity requirements in the C++11 standard require ABI changes to several standard library classes to satisfy, most notably to std::basic_string and std::list. And since std::basic_string is used widely, much of the standard library is affected...

Release of C++ Format 1.0, a small, safe and fast formatting library for C++--Victor Zverovich

By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 9, 2015 09:39 AM | Tags: performance intermediate

Here is a new library:

Release of C++ Format 1.0, a small, safe and fast formatting library for C++

by Victor Zverovich

From the main page:

C++ Format is an open-source formatting library for C++. It can be used as a safe alternative to printf or as a fast alternative to IOStreams...

Snail: Continuation-ready algorithms from STL algorithms -- Manu Sánchez

By Jordi Mon Companys | Feb 3, 2015 07:48 AM | Tags: stl monads continuation-ready algorithms

Monads in use, finally!!

Snail | Continuation-ready algorithms from STL algorithms

by Manu Sánchez

From the article:

Snail is my try to get a continuation-ready set of algorithms to operate on C++ containers, but instead of reinventing all the algorithms, addapting them through a continuation monad (or something resembling a continuation monad).